Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets / And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources

by S. Baring-Gould

[496] In Arabic, Risam and Rijam; and Shabun and Gabun, in Persian.

[497] Midrash, fol. 56. The Targums say that the enchanters turned the water of Goshen into blood, so that there was no water to the Israelites as to the Egyptians; i. p. 462.

[498] Midrash, fol. 55.

[499] Targum of Palestine, i. p. 463.

[500] Venomous insects (Kalma), gnats (Kinnim). See Wisdom xvi. 1, 3.

[501] Targums, i. 464.

[502] Targums, i. p. 467.

[503] Ibid., i. p. 471.

[504] Yaschar, p. 1283.

[505] Tabari, i. p. 338.